The reduction of organizational conflicts through leadership according to Sappurisadhamma-7 and interpersonal relationship according to Sangahavatthu-4 in electronics industry: A comparative study between employees in Asian company group and European-American company group
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to 1) study the levels of the Sappurisadhamma-7,
interpersonal relationship according to the Sangahavatthu-4 and organizational conflict, 2) compare the
Sappurisadhamma-7, interpersonal relationship according to the Sangahavatthu-4 and organizational
conflict by identifying individual factors such as gender, age, educational attainment, civil status,
working experience and income, and 3) investigate the influences of the Sappurisadhamma-7 and
interpersonal relationship according to the Sangahavatthu-4 that lessen the organizational conflict.
The samples of this study were employees of multi-national electronics and industrial
company with a total number of 230 staffs from Asian company and 230 staffs from European &
American company. The validity of the influence of Sappurisadhamma-7 and Sangahavatthu-4 on
the organizational conflict was confirmed through testing the goodness fitted between the proposed
model and empirical data collected. Structural equation analysis was applied by extrapolating the
linear structural relationship technique in its statistical compact software.
The study revealed that Sappurisadhamma-7 principles had direct influence on the
organizational conflict resolution depending on the nature of task, relationship and process.
Moreover, the path coefficient of employees in Asian companies was -0.061 and the path coefficient
of employees in Europe-America companies was -0.332.The Sangahavatthu-4 variables had direct
effect to the organizational conflict with a path coefficient of -0.241 for the employees in Asian
companies and the path coefficient of -0.100 for the employees in European and American companies. The classification among the Sappurisadhamma-7, interpersonal relationship according
to the Sangahavatthu-4 and the organizational conflicts by personal individual factors specified the
following: a) the employees who worked in Asian companies with difference in age, marital status,
educational attainment and work experience showed degree of effects in terms of the
Sappurisadhamma-7 leadership in Thammanyuta (Knowing the causes), Atthanyuta (Knowing the
purpose) and Mattanyuta (Moderation, knowing how to be temperate), b) the employees who were
different in age showed degree of effects in terms of the Sangahavatthu-4 relationship in
Samanattata (Equitable Treatment) and c) the employees who had different working experience
showed degree of effects in terms of organizational conflicts in difference sentiment. The result
also found that the employees who worked in Europe-America companies with difference in age,
level of education, work experience and income showed degree of effects in terms of all the
Sappurisadhamma-7 leadership consisting of Thammanyuta (Knowing the causes), Atthanyuta
(Knowing the purpose), Attanyuta (Knowing oneself), Mattanyuta (Moderation, knowing how to be
temperate), Kalanyuta (Knowing the proper-time), Parisanyuta (Knowing the society) and
Pukkalaparo-paranyuta (Knowing the different individual) and also affected all the Sangahavatthu-4
relationship throughout Than (Charity), Piyawaja (Convincing speech), Athajariya (Volunteering,
doing good) and Samanattata (Equitable Treatment). The employees who had different level of
educational attainment and working experience were affected by the organizational conflicts in
difference sentiment.